A Roof, Domestic Features, Elements of Architecture, Images
A Roof
Elements of Architecture – design by Ali Afsarmanesh + Ali Fouladi + Anahita Rouzbeh
8 Jun 2017
A Roof
Design: Ali Afsarmanesh + Ali Fouladi + Anahita Rouzbeh
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All the concepts used to pull architecture together into a single entity have become non-architectural?economy, sustainability, efficiency, security, and, in a broader sense, property?and all have packaged and commodified buildings into singular enclosures.

A building must have a distinct border, separated and recognizable from the space and buildings around it. As there is always an economic will behind architecture, a building is property before it is architecture. It is ?one? not because it is architecture but because it is property.
To think of a roof as one continuous surface is to think of it within the linear system of causality. Architecture has been considered from the viewpoint of intention; here, that means finding an object (i.e., a surface) that covers. Taking the oneness as given and then look for the ?one? that covers is a common practice among today?s architects.

Our understanding is the opposite. In reversed nonlinearity, we look at the roof from the opposite end, at its consequence?that is, its footprint.

The meaning of ?oneness? has been misinterpreted; the term has been taken to mean a unified phenomenon. One roof is commonly considered to indicate one unified roof; however...